Windows users know opening a malicious e-mail attachment can wreak havoc on their PC. It appears BlackBerry users have to use caution too.
Optus has signed an agreement with Azure Wireless that will see customers of the Singapore Telecommunications-owned carrier gain access to an additional 450 WiFi hotspots.
Australia is one of the few countries to approve for sale a wireless card touted as the most powerful wireless LAN card ever.
After reading of my botched Bluetooth demo, readers offered up their own interoperability horror stories, including how Microsoft's Bluetooth-based keyboards and mice only work with Microsoft-branded Bluetooth transceivers. Can this be for real?
Commentary: Everything has a cheap microchip inside, so Intel's CTO figures everything can have a wireless connection, too. Is he an industry visionary? Or a corporate kook? Apparently, even Intel wondered.
Internode has no incentive to provide free access to its Wi-Fi networks for any reason at all, apart from genuine love, and maybe the joy of finding a new way to flip Telstra the bird.
Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.
What's the first thing you look at when you check into a hotel room? The bed? The view? The minibar?
Just a few days after the Australia Connected program was launched Communications Minister Helen Coonan was selling the initiative to the TV talk shows.
The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.
Given the frantic activity and unpredictable movement of all kinds of hard objects within the pit, it's little surprise that the Holden Racing Team recently standardised on Panasonic's ruggedised Toughbook as its notebook platform of choice.
Finding out where a network is most vulnerable can give you an honest look at the situation. How can penetration testing assist.
As network hardware reaches saturation point, now's the time to pick up a bargain in emerging networking technologies. David Braue examines which innovations you can ignore and which ones your business can't do without.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
They're big and quite ugly, but there's no doubting that Netgear's WNHDEB111 delivers in the 802.11n speed stakes finally!
The mouse is a study in comfort, and the fingerprint reader puts your passwords at your fingertips. It's too bad the fingerprint reader isn't compatible with non-IE browsers.
Australia is one of the few countries to approve for sale a wireless card touted as the most powerful wireless LAN card ever.
The DG834G combines five network functions in a single box — ADSL modem, router, switch, firewall and 802.11g wireless access point.
After reading of my botched Bluetooth demo, readers offered up their own interoperability horror stories, including how Microsoft's Bluetooth-based keyboards and mice only work with Microsoft-branded Bluetooth transceivers. Can this be for real?
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas, such as their PayWave … Watch it now
Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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